“Waipahu, Waialua, Kailua, and Waianae were leading contenders and the prevailing teams of those decades.”

So your initial response is incorrect to begin with because Kahuku and Waipahu were both, as you put it, “leading contenders and prevailing teams” in the 40’s. That right there alone, discredits your claim of your second post that you quoted, in this response to you. Which clearly tells me and signifies your disdain or dislike of Kahuku football because you fail to realize that and or give credit to where it is due.

Another thing that tells me of your antipathy for Kahuku football is the fact that you list Kailua as one of the “leading contenders and prevailing teams” of the first 5 decades of OIA football. However, they were only dominant from ’63-’65. No titles in the ’40’s or ’50’s, or ’70’s, ’80’s, and ’90’s. Kahuku won a title in each decade, and Kailua is one of the “leading contenders and prevailing teams” for those decades?

That logic is very telling of your stance on things. It’s okay though, keep enjoying the history in the making that Kahuku football provides for you, including number 28, of OIA Championships.

You had quoted:

“So you are too young to know from a first hand perspective what is or are the reason or reasons for the dramatic difference in the frequency of championship contention and success of the Kahuku football program between the era from 1973 to 1988, and the years since then, especially from 2000 to the present; if there is a reason, or reasons.”

I did graduate from Kahuku in ’04, so the latter part of your statement, I did answer in the beginning of my original post to you where we were tired of seeing St. Louis always winning. We knew we had the talent to compete with them and win, and that’s what we did starting in 2000.

You went on to say:

“The OIA was founded in 1940. In the first five decades of it’s existence, Kahuku was no more than an occasional champion, and a contender in a few other years. Waipahu, Waialua, Kailua, and Waianae were leading contenders and the prevailing teams of those decades.”

Kahuku (’43, ’44, and ’47) and Waipahu (’46, ’48, and ’49), each won 3 titles in the 40’s to lead in that decade. Waipahu’s coach (Mits Fujishige) for those title years started off at Kahuku when they won in ’43. Waipahu (still with Fujishige) and Waialua won 4 titles in the 50’s. From ’56-’72 Kahuku went on to win 4 more titles, under Harold Silva in the 50’s and Famika Anae in ’69 and ’72.

Kailua’s only titles during this time frame was a 3 peat from ’63-’65. Waipahu’s title count was at 7, and Waialua’s title count was at 6. Kahuku’s title count was at 7. So your quoted statement above was incorrect as well because Kahuku was tied for the lead for OIA titles at that point.

From ’73-’88 it was pure domination from Waianae where they racked up majority of their OIA titles, 10 to be exact until Kahuku won again in ’89. Waianae would go on to win 4 more titles in the 90’s while Kahuku would begin to rekindle it’s glory of the past, winning 5 titles in the ’90’s.

You also mentioned:

“If one were to read between the lines of your reply, it might be that the players of previous years before 1989 were not as talented in terms of quantity-at least-if not quality, or didn’t work as much or as hard, or did not care as much as players of more recent years.”

So this would be your own personal opinion on this matter at hand. But you were also incorrect with this statement as you were in the quoted statement before this one because again, Kahuku up until ’72, was tied for the lead for OIA titles at 7, with Waipahu. Now if you stated players before ’89 but after ’72, then you would be correct. I can’t say why Kahuku wasn’t good between ’73 and ’88, but I’m also not going to take away the fact that Waianae football completely dominated those years as well.

Towards the end of your response you mentioned:

“Also, you mentioned being robbed in 1996; Kahuku didn’t play in the Prep Bowl in 1996, Waianae did. If you meant 1995, that is relative to your perspective, there was also a call that went against SL, or there was no call when there should have been. It would be very difficult-if not impossible-to attribute any teams loss in the Prep Bowl, or in the HHSAA tournament championship game to being “robbed” due to the action or inaction of the game officials.”

That is correct, I keep forgetting football and graduation are not in the same year. However, I did have a couple cousins who graduated in ’96 that did tell me we got jipped in that game, and that is just a perspecitve, as you mentioned. But it is what it is. So yes, you were correct in that we did go to the title game in ’95 against St. Louis.

Your final statement was:

“Your other incorrect statement, that Kahuku won the Prep Bowl in 1999, was later corrected by you, but you didn’t say that Kahuku never did win a Prep Bowl, and that by the time Kahuku did win its match against the ILH champions in 2000, it was no longer the Prep Bowl, it was the HHSAA tournament final round.”

I did correct myself with the year that we did win, and I also didn’t include prep bowl in the sentence that I corrected because it was a State Championship that we won.

So from 2000 onward, we’ve built something special, just like what the Waianae’s of the late 70’s and 80’s did or the St. Louis’s of the late 80’s and 90’s did as well. And what it comes down to is the talent and the athletes that do come out of OUR community. There are many household names in our community, who generations after generations, have established Kahuku football and has made it what it is today.